Earth Equity News

2015 Was the Warmest Year on Record. By Deborah Netburn, LATimes, 1/20/16. “2015 was Earth's hottest year on record, and it appears the planet is still getting hotter… Climatologist Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, said… ‘Even without El Niño this would have been the warmest year on record. We are looking at a long-term trend, and the factors that cause this long-term trend are continuing to accelerate, namely the increased burning of carbon dioxide fuels and other emissions.’”